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On the Neutrino Non-detection of GRB 130427A

  • Authors: Shan Gao, Kazumi Kashiyama, and Peter Mészáros

Gao, Kashiyama, & Mészáros 2013 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 772 L4.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

Density plot of the expected number of neutrino events (track+cascade) in IceCube for GRB 130427A on the two-dimensional parameter space of the dissipation radius R 13 = R d /10 13 cm and the bulk Lorentz factor Γ of the jet at this radius. This calculation uses the semi-analytical method similar to Waxman & Bahcall (1997) and Zhang & Kumar (2012) but assuming no specific scenario (e.g., neither an internal shock, nor other model; see Section 2 for details). The blue color (top right region) denotes fewer events while the red (lower regions) denotes more events. The five dashed lines from top to bottom show contours where one event is expected for different proton to electron energy ratios epsilon p / epsilon e = 10, 5, 3, 2, 1. The other two energy partition parameters are taken to be constants, epsilon e = 0.1 and epsilon B = 0.01. Based on the null result in the IceCube neutrino search reported in Abbasi et al. (2012), the parameter space below each contours is more likely to be ruled out for the corresponding epsilon p / epsilon e .

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